Hello Thursday!

18Dec08

It’s finally Thursday! I know it’s not really something to get excited about, but considering the fact that I’ve woken up every day this week thinking it was Thursday, this comes as a relief. Thing is, I woke up today thinking it’s Friday! This week is starting to feel way longer than I expected, which is strange because at the end of every day so far I felt like it flew by. Damn you, impending two weeks paid holiday leave! It’s got me all disoriented.

Work has been a chore, not because I’ve been working so hard (though I do have plenty on my plate), but because people around me have been causing so much drama. I successfully avoided both the staff Thanksgiving and Christmas parties simply by replying to the email to say I would be attending. No questions were asked. I got sick the week of the Thanksgiving party and ended up being out anyway. I considered taking the day of the Christmas party off but stuck around for the lulz. The secretary, who’d made such a huge deal about how the director had personally invited her to both parties despite her not wanting to go, called in old that day. She told me she’d fallen in the bath the night before and tried her best to get me to pity her, but I just took the message and passed it on. My supervisor, who becomes more cynical every day, made a personal call to the secretary. She insisted that the old lady go to the doctor and told her to call back when she was there. The secretary likes to cause personal drama every time attention is drawn away from her, so my supervisor basically called her on it. A few hours later, after my supervisor called again and found her still at home, we got a call from the old lady’s doctor saying she was fine. When she returned to work the next day, her story was very different from the one the doctor had told my supervisor. The whole ordeal was both amusing and sad. Sometimes I feel sorry for her but usually I just want to be rid of her. I’ve put up with her abuse for far too long.

Anyway, it’s Thursday. Two more days until I can leave this place for a good amount of time. We put up a Christmas tree in the office, and not surprisingly, the only ornaments anyone had were from a nativity set. For one day the tree was covered in dirty looking shepherds, farm animals, and a tiny baby Jesus. The next day my boss came to work with a bag full of regular round glass ornaments, and the Jesus tree was no more, which is a good thing because it was starting to unnerve me. I don’t have issues with people putting up their religious stuff, but if the tree’s in my cubicle, I don’t want it. They can keep their religious decorations to their own cubicles, thank you very much. I understand that their religion is important to them, but my irreligion is just as important to me. More importantly, I don’t want their stupid things in my cool van! All ceramic nativity scenes and angels have been moved to their owners’ cubicles.

Other than work, life has been pretty ordinary. My brother came down for Thanksgiving and is still here, but that was to be expected. He probably won’t go back to work until well into January, as that’s his pattern. The squid has been whinier than usual, but I’m hoping it’s just another one of those little kid phases. Mostly she wants and doesn’t want everything at the same time, defies me at every moment, and goes from not wanting to be touched to exceedingly affectionate in a flash. I found a death metal radio station that is just awesome but I can’t seem to find a stream anymore, which is a bummer because they have this one DJ with an Irish accent that just cracks me up. Also learned that headbanging may be hazardous to one’s health in an amusing news article. Anyway, I’m sure there’s more (not really, I’m very uninteresting), but that’s all I’ve got right now. Time to go back to pretending I’m working!

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